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String disagree on the spectrum of Republicans. If there’s an R next to your name, you’re against multiracial democracy and representative government. https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1353350978297323523
I honestly don’t know how often we have to do this, but Reagan launched his 1980 campaign in MS, just a few miles from where the Civil Rights 3 were murdered and never spoke of their names, but did explicitly mention “States’ Rights” in his speech.
George W Bush rose to office on the back of voting shenanigans in a state run by his brother, incited a riot to stop vote counting, and was ultimately given the presidency by a partisan court. He subsequently argued that he had a “mandate” to govern.
John McCain, after one of the clearest and most historic margins for the first Black man to be elected to POTUS, destroyed a community organizing group dedicated to enhancing Black and brown political power because, McCain insisted, they promoted “voter fraud.”
Mitt Romney held a press conference announcing the endorsement of Donald Trump for his presidential campaign, when his rise to political prominence was built on a racist conspiracy theory that a Black man was ineligible to be President because he *could not be* an American.
I could list all the ways Republicans have abandoned and debased marginalized communities — the AIDS epidemic, Willie Horton, Hurricane Katrina, voter suppression, block grants, and suggesting that 47% of us deserve to starve — but it would crash up against white denial.
I will repeat, until the party is destroyed for a generation and its metaphorical fields are seeded with salt: there is no such thing as a good Republican.
